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A U.S. soldier died Thursday from a noncombat-related incident in Kosovo, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Source: Fort Bragg-based soldier dies in Kosovo – Europe – Stripes

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What the hell are US troups doing in Kosovo?

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“war on people who use cash.”

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: The Curse of the War on Cash

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Yet another infringement on the poor and those who want privacy.

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Yet you’ll remember back when Hillary collapsed and had to be thrown bodily into her van at the World Trade Center memorial observances in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2016, she and her doctor claimed she had “pneumonia” — “pneumonia” which was curiously all better when she emerged from her daughter’s apartment to greet the gathered folk out on the sidewalk about an hour later.Doctors report someone who has pneumonia so severe as to cause a complete fainting collapse do not “get all better” within an hour.

Also, Donald Trump (who — contrary to most reporting — often initially says a lot less than he really knows) commented that Hillary would show up for the presidential debates all buzzing with energy, but less than two hours later would need help shuffling into her van — kind of like someone who was being “juiced up” for special occasions.

Yet reporters — whose first job is to be curious — shrieked that it was (and apparently remains, to this day) completely out-of-line to challenge the “official version” on Hillary’s health, that only black helicopter Conspiracy Nuts would visit the Vidzette Web site and listen to Dr. Ted Noel explain that Hillary Clinton was showing every sign of the mood-and energy-swings of a patient on L-Dopa therapy (which can create a high like cocaine, followed by a serious slump) for advanced Parkinson’s Disease.

Source: Vin Suprynowicz » Blog Archive » On Reporters Who Ask No (Unapproved) Questions

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Often wonder of the truth of that “Hilary has Parkinson’s” story?

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ADDRESSING THE New York State Democratic convention last week, Joe Biden endorsed Governor Andrew Cuomo for reelection and delivered some blistering criticism of the party that controls Congress and the White House. “This is not your father’s Republican

Source: Your father’s Republican Party has vanished. His Democratic Party has, too :: Jeff Jacoby

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Even the big L Libertarian Party has left this little L Libertarian.

Maybe it’s a function of wanting the levers of Gooferment?

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The “New Jersey Health Insurance Market Preservation Act” was part of a two-bill legislative package, sponsored by Assembly members John McKeon, Carol Murphy and Pamela Lampitt, that lawmakers say will “protect New Jersey from President Trump’s effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and preserve the health care benefits provided by the law to the state’s residents.”

Source: WATCH LIVE: Murphy Signs Bill To Make Bigger Health Care Changes | Patch

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The subjects in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee have no right to decide what coverage they want to buy.

Argh!

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Salman Abedi was responsible for what he did, but he could not have killed 22 people and maimed another 139 others, half of them children, if the British government had not acted as it did in Libya in 2011. And its responsibility goes well beyond its disastrous policy of joining the Libyan civil war, overthrowing Gaddafi and replacing him with warring tribes and militias.

Source: The Manchester bomber was enabled by the British government, by Patrick Cockburn – The Unz Review

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Some how the politicians and bureaucrats always seem to get off the hook!

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And they’re still the most secure computing platform ever.

Source: Everything you knew about Chromebooks is wrong | TechConnect

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I love its simplicity!

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Even with all these security measures, tragedies such as befell the high school in Santa Fe, Texas on May 18th, still occur.

Source: Exclusive — Barr: There’s No Reason Not to Harden Security at Schools

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Maybe the problem is Government Schools?

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We now know for a fact that Spy-in-Chief Barack Obama weaponized the various intelligence agencies at his command to do something unprecedented: spy on a rival presidential campaign, specifically Donald Trump’s.

Source: 7 Ways Spy-in-Chief Barack Obama Spied on Donald Trump

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Seven ways that we know about now.

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This year is the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Estimates about its impact vary. But when you read that a third of the entire global population probably caught the Spanish flu and that it killed between 50 and 100 million people in all corners of the globe – up to 5% of all human beings on the planet at the time – you get an inkling of its scale.

Source: A century on, why are we forgetting the deaths of 100 million? | Martin Kettle | Opinion | The Guardian

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Wow, hard to imagine the number of dead.  FIVE PERCENT of the population.

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A photo showed the two individuals who negotiated that agreement. Britain was represented by John Maynard Keynes, a towering economic figure of that era. America’s representative was Harry Dexter White, assistant secretary of the Treasury and long a central architect of American economic policy, given that his nominal superior, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., was a gentleman farmer with no background in finance. White was also a Communist agent.

Source: Our American Pravda, by Ron Unz – The Unz Review

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“American Pravda”  — how appropriate!

Makes you wonder how many Conspiracy Theories are essentially true?

I, for one, am beginning to learn that EVERYTHING I’ve been taught may be FALSE, at worst, and SPIN, at best.

Argh!

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Kansas created a video of two animated traffic cones discussing how early mergers back up traffic by creating one slower lane versus cars moving ahead with more efficient zipper merges.

Source: In heavy traffic, the preferred way to merge is to ‘wait until late’ | WTOP

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I get annoyed when some bozo uses the should to be first.  Karma would put a cop up at the merge point!

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Rachel Dolezal (pictured in 2017), the former NAACP leader who pretended she was black only to be unmasked as a white woman in 2015, has been accused of welfare fraud.

Source: Race-faker Rachel Dolezal is accused of welfare fraud | Daily Mail Online

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</joke> Leopards don’t change their stripes and tigers don’t change their spots. <joke/>

Why would anyone be surprised by a fraud perpetrating another fraud?

The problem is welfare aka gooferment charity.

Private charity works; Gooferment perpetuates waste, fraud, and abuse.

Argh!

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One person is dead and three were injured in a shooting at a restaurant in Oklahoma City on Thursday night. When the shooter tried to walk out of the restaurant, he was shot dead by a civilian.

Source: One dead and more injured in mass shooting at Oklahoma City restaurant  | Daily Mail Online

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Score one for “the good guy with a gun” scenario!

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From rooftops to reservoirs, Singapore is doing everything it can to maximize its unique living space for renewable energy.

Source: Fighting for solar power in a concrete jungle – CNET

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With land space a premium in Singapore, the government is looking to take advantage of its 17 sizable water reservoirs as an alternative location for solar panels. The Public Utilities Board (PUB) is currently trialing floating solar platforms, and results so far have been promising, with systems performing 5 percent to 15 percent better than a typical rooftop system due to the cooler temperatures of the reservoir environment.

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What a great idea.  Probably impacts evaporation too.

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A newly formed lava delta is an unstable beast, and it can collapse without warning. This can trap water within the hot rock, leading to violent steam-driven explosions that can hurl metre-sized blocks up to 250 metres. Explosions occur because when the water turns to steam it suddenly expands to around 1,700 times its original volume. Waves of scalding water can also injure people who are too close. People have died and been seriously injured during lava delta collapses

Source: Lava in Hawai’i is reaching the ocean, creating new land but also corrosive acid mist

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Sounds dangerous as Hades!

I sure wouldn’t be hang over edges to snap selfies.  Sounds like a sure way to win a Darwin Award!

Although not completely unheard of, scenes like THIS are no doubt, tough on the psyche. Especially during the last full week of May. AND to add insult to injury, another round of snow is possible for parts of Newfoundland on Friday. More on that below.

Source: News – Late May SNOW DAY for this province, jaw-dropping photos – The Weather Network

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Global Warming?

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Noah Friend returned Monday to his home in Leilani Estates to find a 10-foot wide crack running 500 feet long through his backyard and beneath his house.

Source: Leilani Estates family ‘heartbroken’ as huge crack swallows up their home

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That’s tough luck.  Is there any insurance that would cover that?

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Have you used Nextdoor to help collect donation items before? Hillcrest Ranch resident Michelle hadn’t until recently when she was looking to donate bikes to St. Vincent de Paul, and was pleasantly surprised at the response! As part of National Bike Month, Michelle was looking to collect bikes to donate to the St.

Source: Glendale, AZ neighbor collects over 40 bikes for those in need

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What a great combination of technology and human needs!

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Every time we write about passwords on Lifehacker, a few readers share their secret formula for creating passwords. According to Ryan Merchant, senior manager at the password manager Dashlane , those formulas are easy to hack. Dashlane recently analyzed 61 million passwords from years of large data breaches—passwords that are available to many security researchers, hackers, and even the public.

Source: Password Formulas Don’t Fool Hackers

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Been saying that for years.  My favorite is LASTPASS.

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The “March For Our Lives” gun-grabbers have convinced themselves that the only way to stop mass shootings in the United States is to prohibit law-abiding Americans from owning firearms. But what these brainwashed leftists fail (or willfully refuse) to acknowledge is the fact that almost every major shooting incident that’s occurred in recent years is directly tied to the perpetrators’ use of mind-altering pharmaceuticals.

Source: The Elephant in the Room: Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About the Link Between Psychiatric Medications and Mass Shootings?

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The NRA, GOA, and gun owners in general have been yelling about this for decades!

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Source: Thank you from AARP Feedback

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I really object to the far left liberal political agenda that you push for. I don’t think that you should advocate for things that will bankrupt the posterity of the USA. You should be advocating for a strong fiscal discipline in Congress, against the inflationary Federal Reserve policies, and programs like Obama/SCOTUS/Trump care. We can do so much better and seniors are not a homogeneous class of people. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme that transfers wealth from poor minority men to rich white women. As such, you should be championing reform into Individual Social Security Accounts just like a 401k. If Chile could do it in the 70’s, why can’t we do it now.

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UBI is an idea gaining traction among those given to believing impossible things — college professors.And politicians.The fellow with stars in his eyes… is often the fellow with rocks in his head.Under UBI, the government would guarantee every working-age American a basic standard of living.No string would come attached to this pretty peach… no proof of want… no questions whatsoever.Assume, for example, that a strong-backed fellow can find employment moving furniture.But the job demands an early rise… and he finds that dozing until noon better suits him.Would this layabout receive a check?Yes he would.

Source: The Next Welfare Program – The Daily Reckoning

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Subsidizing “welfare queens”?  Again!

The only way this flies if ALL other welfare programs are completely eliminated and all the bureaucrats are put on the street to look for work.  No unemployment insurance for 99 weeks  — that goes away with the Universal Basic Income.  No welfare  — no food stamps, no WIC, no retraining  — no nothing.

Some how I don’t the politicians and bureaucrats will make the trade.

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[FiOS Phone] New Telemarketer Trick? – Verizon FiOS | DSLReports Forums, broadband news, information and community

Source: [FiOS Phone] New Telemarketer Trick? – Verizon FiOS | DSLReports Forums

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A new curse upon the land?

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High school seniors Luciana Tellez, Giselle Montano and Esmeralda Nava died Saturday night after their car was struck head-on on Interstate 5 in Yoncalla, Oregon.

Source: Three high school seniors die in Oregon crash weeks before graduation | Daily Mail Online

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Why can these types of crashes be prevented by good injineering (i.e., wrong way tire shredders at all entrances).  If we had private roads, I bet they’d be installed already!

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We should all be concerned about honey bees dying. Honeybees pollinate more than 100 crops , from apples to zucchini. The world has watched honey bees dying in the millions since 2006. Though there have been news reports concerning this crisis fro the last 12 years, a majority of people still aren’t tuned in to the actual scope of the situation.

Source: Honey Bees Dying? You Can Help By Starting Your Own Hive

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Wondering about the idle green spots around and how hard would it be to establish colonies. Not for harvesting honey; just to create more bees.

Seems like a “johnny appleseed” type project.

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